Victoria

We've talked a lot about restaurants and bars being closed during lockdown, hotels - not so much. But an email received over the weekend reminded us that London's hotels have been busy behind the scenes, getting themselves ready for the time when they can receive guests again.

The Goring, just around the corner from Buckingham Palace, and a favourite dining spot of Her Majesty, has been using the time to make

Fans of Cutter and Squidge - best known for their biskies (a cake/cookie sandwich concoction) - can rejoice as they're about to get another location - this time as a pop-up in Victoria. Already set up in The City and Soho, they're now heading to

Back in the day, you'd be lucky to get a warm glass of Pinot Grigio waiting for you in a theatre bar during the interval. Now it's quite a different story. Over in Westminster, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Other Palace has a restaurant by the Naughty Piglets crowd alongside a gin bar, and now the Victoria Palace is following suit.

The Cameron Mackintosh theatre, where Hamilton is currently playing, has just opened Pavlova's - a new bar

Nathan Outlaw is changing his London base of operations. He's opening a new restaurant at The Goring in Belgravia - a more casual seafood-led affair that's the hotel's first new restaurant in over 100 years.

Jason Atherton has been regularly teaming up with some big-name chefs for his special pizzas in Victoria's Hai Cenato (including Massimo Bottura, Tom Brown, Clare Smyth and Paul Ainsworth). And that's continuing in April as he brings in Ben Tish - who's gearing up to open Sicilian restaurant

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so we have some good news for anyone working in Victoria - Market Halls have just started opening for weekday breakfast.

So whether you're after somewhere a little different for a breakfast meeting - and the large communal tables here would be great for that, along with the free wifi - or just want to grab something great to go in the morning, there'll be something for

Returning for a second year, M restaurant in Victoria is turning itself into a pop-up restaurant to raise funds to end sex trafficking and modern day slavery. M Is Not For Sale will run for a month raising both funds and awareness to support Professor David Batstone's ‘Not for Sale’ enterprises. 100% of the profits from sales of the special menu will go to the charity.

If you're thinking, 'well that sounds like something I definitely want to